Oh, I think he is a willing tool; he was flipped during the POW days.
RE POW:
Yeah... I’ve thought that for a while now. Beatings, torture, mental and physical. Anything is possible. Pavlovian conditioning. When that is constant, some either break completely and do whatever you have to stop it. Some folks can take it longer than others... who the hell knows, right?
Deferential and obeisant to the enemy, hostile to his allies, never fails to compromise on the things that damage us.
What other explanation is there???